KyungHyun Cho (New York University) “Future (?) of Machine Translation”
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When:
February 23, 2016 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
2016-02-23T12:00:00-05:00
2016-02-23T13:15:00-05:00
Where:
Hackerman Hall B17
3400 N Charles St
Baltimore, MD 21218
USA
3400 N Charles St
Baltimore, MD 21218
USA
Abstract:
It is quite easy to believe that the recently proposed approach to machine translation, called neural machine translation, is simply yet another approach to statistical machine translation. This belief may drive research effort toward (incrementally) improving the existing neural machine translation system to outperform, or perform comparably to, the existing variants of phrase-based systems. In this talk, I aim to convince you otherwise. I argue that neural machine translation is not here to compete against the existing translation systems, but to open new opportunities in the field of machine translation. I will discuss three opportunities; (1) sub-word-level translation, (2) larger-context translation and (3) multilingual translation.
Biography:
Kyunghyun Cho is an assistant professor of Computer Science and Data Science at New York University (NYU). Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the
University of Montreal under the supervision of Prof. Yoshua Bengio after obtaining a doctorate degree at Aalto University (Finland) in early 2014. Kyunghyun’s main research interests include neural networks, generative models and their applications, especially, to language understanding.
